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Ancient Roman glass beads: genuine Roman blue glass eye bead, 1 century BCE

$ 100.32

Availability: 100 in stock

Description

Roman eye bead
1 century BCE to 1 century
Eastern Mediterranean
Cylindrical bead- a segment of glass tube. Multiple white glass eyes with amber center.
Most of eyes are intact.
Max diameter: 15 mm
Height: 13 mm
For similar published beads in museum collections see:
-Véronique Arveiller-Dulong, Marie-Dominique Nenna.  Les Verres antiques du Musée du Louvre III : Parure, instruments et éléments d’incrustation, Paris, Éditions du Louvre, Somogy, 2011, p. 220 # 299-52, 58, 57.
- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1975, table 15: 70.